Thanks for the ping KC_Lion. Even more thanks to JimRob for that link, and for building and maintaining FR. This is the Digest ping for the week, one day early.
Gives me chills, and makes me sick....
I was just a lurker here then, and a month away from 18.
As I recall the Internet was super slow with dialup, I had trouble getting FR to load.
I worked in downtown Cleveland, and had to get a document mailed that day, in the Post Office. If not, I could have been sued big time. Businesses were closing due to the plane to Cleveland. I got to the window just as the USPS was closing early. Whew. Evacuated right after that!
Thanks for the ping KC_Lion. Even more thanks to JimRob for that link, and for building and maintaining FR. This is the Digest ping for the week, one day early.
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The early analysis on FR is striking:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/520255/posts first thread on the attacks
9:18:58 “Nobody paid for the last 5 terrorist attacks on US interests. Bin Laden should have been a dead man by now. I hope and pray that W has the strength and will to do what has to be done.” - jwalsh07 [That was fast!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/520262/posts
9:15:55 “Osama bin Ladin is my guess, no matter who takes credit.” - Catspaw (also posted at 9:09:58 on another thread)
9:35:19 “FBI enroute. Osama bin Laden suspected.” - piasa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/520260/posts Another thread at . . .
11:01:57 “I doubt Arafat had anything to do with this. This was almost certainly Osama Bin Laden.” - Illbay [That was confident and correct; clearly based on knowledge rather than guessing.]
The timeliness of information and quality of analysis on FR are the best in the world. If that’s not a reason to donate, I don’t know what is.
I remember being totally stunned and disbelieving... Barbara Olsen reportedly being on the plane that hit the Pentagon and assumed killed along with everyone on board... watching in real time as the second tower was hit, and then a bit later on the towers came down.
No one wanted to say it, but we were at war.
Firefighters and rescuers arriving from all over the country to assist with searching for survivors and only finding that one lucky group of firemen in a corner of a stairwell that managed to make it... then hope slowly dying as the hours went by and no one else was found, with the beeps of the downed firefighters Emergency Locator Devices gradually stopping.
I remember being totally outraged when a group of “academics”, professors from some local educational establishment stepping up to a stage that had been set up somewhere close by and beginning to make a speech about how this was all the fault of the U.S. and its foreign policies and warmongering, then them being shocked as members of the crowd began shouting at them and objects beginning to fly towards them in increasingly greater numbers as they hastily retreated and ran for cover. They are lucky they survived as the crowd was quite, quite upset. I am still looking for copies of that vid as I want everyone to remember who those buggering loons are.
I remember George Bush arriving at the tower’s remains and climbing up to stand with a firefighter and with a bullhorn announce “I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people - and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”
Never forget.
(transcript: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911groundzerobullhorn.htm )
Very interesting to peruse. Nevertheless, even today I can not get myself to watch any aspect that involves the destruction of the WTC. It’s just much too painful.
I was “here.”
Good link with more images and info on the situation as it occurred.
Warning: not too graphic but still heart-tugging. You are warned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2LxmESkV0Q
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Wow, I haven’t seen those Freeper names in a long time.
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I caught the end of a show on Fox News the other day (sorry don’t know what it was or who the guest was) but she outlined how the Bush Administration and Congress had the Saudis’ backs those days and hours after 911. It had me seething with rage realizing that House Bush covered for the Saudis. The Congress then whitewashed the 911 Commission report to exclude the role of the Saudis.
Bookmarked. Thank you.
